Thursday, September 26, 2013

Montreal, Like Tampa, Wants Baseball...and Has No Idea How to Pay for It

It doesn’t look like the poll actually asked people what they’d want
to spend to build a new stadium to get a team — the full poll results
haven’t actually been released — but that’s certainly the plan....We knew that Montréal had a lot
of baseball fans, that it’s big, and that MLB would be stupid to turn up
its nose at putting a team there if it offered a new stadium. As when the Expos were still extant,
though, the trick is going to be getting the stadium built, or rather
figuring out who would pay for it. I wonder what ever happened to the
money from that “buy a brick” campaign the Expos ran for their attempt
at a new ballpark? Probably sitting in one of Jeffrey Loria’s desk
drawers…